Tarrant County's Republican commissioners voted Tuesday to close 92 polling places for the November midterms. Voters in Texas's third-most-populous county used 316 sites in the 2022 midterms; they get 224 on November 3, 62 days from now. County Judge Tim O'Hare carried the 3-2 vote with commissioners Matt Krause and Manny Ramirez; Democrats Alisa Simmons and Roderick Miles Jr. voted no, the Texas Tribune and NBC News reported Tuesday. We have not yet read the county's signed order — the clerk had not posted it by publication time — so the count comes from that coverage of the meeting.
Narativ published the plan last night — "New Analysis: Trump Is Running the January 6 Playbook in the Midterms" — three stages: suppress the vote at mass scale, then question the results, then build toward martial law and the suspension of elections outright. Stage one just stopped being a forecast. Fort Worth watched it pass on a show of hands.
Dozens of residents packed the commissioners' meetings for a month to fight the cuts, and ABC News reported the vote came amid weeks of public outcry. "America is the right to vote; it is wrong to suppress that," Fort Worth resident Catherine Godby told the court in August, per CBS Texas.
